Having unlimited access to your doctor seems too good to be true, but Dr. Dianna Gagnon says that’s exactly the kind of flexibility her patients have.
“I typically don’t have appointments on Friday, but I do today for a new mom with a newborn who wants to do her new patient appointment at home,” Gagnon said, talking about how she runs her practice.
Gagnon is a direct primary care doctor. This means her patients pay a flat monthly fee and they can see her whenever they need to, without any additional charges or co-pays.
Taylor Plowman is one of Gagnon’s patients and has three young children. That means she was at the doctor’s office all the time, and she was looking for a more reliable option.
“We would have very long wait times to even talk to anybody like 20-40 minutes or an hour. And then a lot of times we’d be sent to quick care, I’d say almost 80% of the time,” Plowman said.
Now, she said if she calls Gagnon she can often get in that same day.